Quotes about american-director
american-director amount amusing certain guess poking
I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares? Joel Coen
american-director
We create monsters and then we can't control them.
american-director approach characters conceiving creations hated love ridiculous
You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.
american-director beats throwing
I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.
american-director funny people understood
I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.
american-director female house last might night olympian outside running
Excluding the possibility that a female Scandinavian Olympian was running around outside our house last night, what else might be a possibility?
american-director cuts few four love special
The Lethals were never done as a special edition, but that's still a few years away. I'd love to do director's cuts of all four of them. Richard Donner
american-director came nor
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. Omar Khayyam
american-director directors loved seen
The directors I would have loved to have seen were Kurosawa or Leone - I would have loved being on their set to see how they worked. Antoine Fuqua
american-director case director except teller telling tells
The director is the teller of the film, the director tells the movie, like you would tell a story, except in this case you're telling a movie. Sydney Pollack
american-director costs cultural million
A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit. Steven Soderbergh
american-director check hire
And - but when you're making a film on somebody, you really have to check with them, and plan, and hire the cinematographer to come out. Terry Zwigoff
american-director olivia production song
As we went into production, there was no song for Olivia and no idea where we would put it. It was not even on the production schedule. Randal Kleiser
american-director percent waste
All organizations are at least 50 percent waste - waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time. Robert Townsend
american-director awful dramatic people
It's just often more interesting to write about one or more people who are being awful to other people because it makes for exciting, dramatic fare. Neil LaBute
american-director rehearsal seems
It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon.
american-director looked people point work
A lot of people thought my work was very tedious, and it can be if you look at it from that point of view, but I never looked upon it as tedious. Ray Harryhausen
american-director began chain connecting construct french lawrence
Foreseeing the struggle, the French began to construct a chain of forts connecting the St. Lawrence settlements with the Mississippi.
american-director capable hollywood identify leading men struggles unusual
It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand. Mark Rydell
american-director revealing
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. Elia Kazan
american-director camera certainly following patience point running
There was certainly times when I was following him around with a camera where he would get to the point where he was running out of patience for it.
american-director designed ibm kubrick layout logos
There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens. Douglas Trumbull
american-director bigger high late life surreal twenties
I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.
american-director people pull situation transport vision
It's all about the same thing, being able to pull people into a situation where you have a vision, and transport that vision off the page. Taylor Hackford
american-director board flat flying four guy prepared superman
They prepared Superman for a year, and they had the guy flying on a flat board with four wires. What were the challenges? Endless.
american-director buses downtown loft runs spur subway
There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.
american-director build characters filmmakers gone stories truths universal
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well. Cameron Crowe
american-director certain choice flavor movies style
We probably weren't the first choice because our movies have a certain style and flavor to them which is kind of inconsistent to each one. Bobby Farrelly
american-director return
I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years. Tobe Hooper
american-director certain movies scene sick watch
There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch. David Fincher
american-director came comic filled notebook script thinking
We started out thinking of this as a comic book. We filled notebook after notebook with ideas. That's where the script came from. Andy Wachowski
american-director concerns incredibly people period
I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.
american-director fox network nine people talked three worked
Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way. Robert Greenwald